"All universal moral principles are idle fancies." Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, Comte de Sade
  • Henry Clay, House Speaker (on a narrow sidewalk): "I, sir, do not step aside for a scoundrel."
  • John Randolph, stepping aside: "On the other hand, I always do."
    (06/02/1773 – 05/24/1833)
    US congressman (VA)
"Some folk want their luck buttered." Thomas Hardy
"We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale." John Hope
"You had to stand in line to hate him." Elda Furry
(Hopper painted by Red Skelton)
"Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more." Edwin Way Teale
"We won't make a sequel, but we may well make a second episode." Jon Peters
"Our generation is the first to have grown up with TV. I'm one of the first kids that they watched grow up on television."
"Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars." Dana Carvey
"I'm not in the entertainment field, I'm in the confrontation field." Lydia Koch
"I'm a McDonald's girl; several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal. And I'm a nail-biter. If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps." Nikki Cox